October 5/6/7

October 5/6/7

Sat, Oct. 6 | 4:00 pm | 90 minutes

Timothy Spall Talks with Rebecca Mead

Everyman.

Film, TV, and Theatre

Photograph by Dean Chalkley / Camera Press / Red​ux

Timothy Spall is an award-winning actor who has appeared in many television shows and films, including “Secrets & Lies,” “Topsy-Turvy,” “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams,” “The King’s Speech,” several of the “Harry Potter” movies, and “Hamlet,” directed by Kenneth Branagh. He has been nominated six times for a BAFTA Award, and in 2014 he received the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, for his role as J. M. W. Turner in the film “Mr. Turner.”

Rebecca Mead joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997. She has profiled many people, among them Lena Dunham, Margaret Atwood, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nico Muhly, Andrew Breitbart, and Shaquille O’Neal. She has also written more than two hundred Talk of the Town stories, and is the author of the books “One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding” and “My Life in Middlemarch.” She lives in London.